The Grace of Adoption

Bradford: To vouchsafeth something is to grant or bestow something, but there's more to the word than we commonly understand. The act of God adopting his children in Christ is part of the gracious condescension that God is pleased to make with us. And without his condescension, we would have no hope of anything of any future," he says. Brad: Historically adoption was not treated as an independent topic or an independent loci on its own until Westminster.